The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The outside conditions of your life do not make you feel either secure or insecure. One person may feel secure with practically… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We only suffer when we falsely identify with the objects that arise in our awareness, rather than with the awareness itself—when we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
What would happen to the individual if all the functions of the body were placed under the control of the consciousness is… — Henry George Copy Share Image
I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid - and I didn't read magazines or watch… — Cameron Russell Copy Share Image
There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
As a bio-philosopher - as someone who draws upon the scriptures of nature, recognizing that we are the product of the process… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
“What if I told you, that consciousness is not in the body, body is embedded in the consciousness.” — Prana Gogia Copy Share Image
It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
When I speak to students about the Civil Rights Movement, I say that it is impossible to stop a determined movement that… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
The important message of the energy of attraction is in learning to master your choices in the present to create a personal… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
It is your soul's journey to enroll the ego in the quest for the ultimate victory - the evolution of your own… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
You did something noble. This will cause a release of energy. It causes a vibratory shift. It means you are moving into… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I AM is a feeling of permanent awareness. The very center of consciousness is the feeling of I AM. I may forget… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
I came to political consciousness with John F. Kennedy's magnificent 1961 Inaugural Address. It seemed the start of something fresh and exciting,… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
Our own theory is that sin was ordained only in view of redemption, and that accordingly redemption shows forth as the gain… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
'A Talk to Teachers' is emblematic of Baldwin's proclivity for candor over political appeasement and, like much of his work, focusses on… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Whether consciousness is implanted in us by something divine, or whether it is created by the efforts of our brains, the end… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
I was sort of growing up at a time of really rapidly expanding ecological consciousness. It was a time of reckoning when… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious… — Robin Gibb Copy Share Image
Its really important to understand the difference between sentience and consciousness, which are important for human beings. — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
“You see, life is an inherently benevolent process. When you start to view your life with even a smidgen of detachment, the… — Tehya Sky Copy Share Image
So there's that change of general consciousness, and then there's this boom after the war, this expansion into the West. It was… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
“Science can produce vaccines or gas chambers, religion can initiate soup kitchens or concentration camps. Bigger than science, bigger than religion, I'm… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?'… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
Watching people reach a higher level of consciousness. A fixation. For a few moments in their lives, they transcend and become lost… — Jeff Mills Copy Share Image
Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
You don't 'have' a life, you 'are' life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them:… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
A general loftiness of sentiment, independence of men, consciousness of good intentions, self-oblivion in great objects, clear views of futurity; thoughts of… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
